BFSU LANGUAGE ENTRY
016 / 101Portuguese
PortuguêsAt BFSU, Portuguese is among 101 approved foreign languages, connecting the university’s multilingual education with the places and cultures where the language is used.
Brazil, Angola, Portugal
- NATIVE NAME
- Português
- WRITING SYSTEM
- Latin script
- AT BFSU
- One of 101 languages
LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
See where Portuguese connects communities.
LANGUAGE REACH
Portuguese is spoken across 14 countries and territories.
No. 8 of 101 languages · No. 7 by territory count
Europe
05PortugalFranceSwitzerlandUnited KingdomLuxembourg
East Asia
01Mainland China
Sub-Saharan Africa
02AngolaMozambique
The Americas
02BrazilCanada
Oceania
01Timor-Leste
Other areas
03Guinea-BissauCape VerdeSão Tomé & Príncipe
From daily conversation in Brazil, Angola, and Portugal to education, literature and media, Portuguese carries the accents, vocabulary and expressions of different communities.
Population and distribution figures use Unicode CLDR 48 ↗ estimates of people able to use the language, including first- and second-language users. Recorded reach counts territories with an estimated community of at least 10,000; figures are comparative, not live counts.
AT BFSU
A language opens a wider view of the world.
BFSU places Portuguese within a multilingual programme that brings language study together with literature, history, society and regional knowledge.
The language is commonly written in Latin script; its literature, media and everyday expressions carry the experiences of the communities that use it.
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